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Definition

Internal linking is the practice of linking between pages within the same website — connecting related content, distributing page authority, and signaling topical relationships to search engines and AI crawlers. Internal linking is how AI crawlers understand the architecture of a site’s knowledge. A well-linked site communicates which pages are most important, how topics relate to each other, and where the authoritative version of a concept lives. For a glossary-driven content strategy, internal linking is the mechanism that turns individual entries into a connected knowledge graph — each term linking to related terms, related blog posts, and relevant service pages, building the topical web that AI systems use to assess authority.

Topic cluster

Hub and spoke model

Pillar page

Topical authority

Content architecture

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